MRS FRASER, whose maiden name was Dolina Graham, was born at Drumbeg, Assynt, in 1856, and passed away on 7th August 1923, aged 67. She joined the Free Presbyterian Church in 1897, and was a staunch, unwavering member to the last, and while she had health, she was a regular attender on the means of grace. Stricken down with paralysis, she was in a very weak condition bodily, but her mental faculties were unimpaired. In her youth Mrs Fraser was like others, quite unconcerned, but when awakened to realise her ruined condition, other matters were of little importance during a period of three years. During this time she was much indebted to an exercised Christian woman, Mrs Kerr, for instruction and counsel. When the Lord’s time to favour her came, it was through the words: “I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me” (Is. Ixiii., 3). She often spoke of the day of deliverance and expressed a wish for such another day and for a view of the truth as she saw it that day. Her youngest daughter, who attended her mother so devotedly to the end, told us that her mother’s last day on earth was the brightest since she was laid aside. The righteous are taken away from the wrath to come.
H. M.
I have sometimes seen more in a line of the Bible than I could well tell how to stand under, and yet at another time the whole Bible hath been to me as dry as a stick, or rather, my heart hath been so dead and dry unto it, that I could not conceive the least drachm of refreshment, though I have looked it all over. Of all tears, they are the best that are made by the blood of Christ; and of all joy, that is the sweetest that is mixed with mourning over Christ. O! it is a goodly thing to be on our knees, with Christ in our arms, before God. I hope I know something of these things.—John Bunyan, in “Grace Abounding.”